Freezing Venison for Summer Sausage

[infoman jr.]

I'm cutting up my fourth and final deer for the year this evening. I'm probably going to make the whole thing into summer sausage.

Question:
Would you grind the meat before freezing or chunk it up then freeze it? (I'm thinking chunk it up and freeze it.)

 

[mike243]

chunk it up & freeze ,if you grind & then thaw mix x grind refreeze you will lose a lot more moisture = less quality on finished product jmo

 

[infoman jr.]

Unfortunately, due to freezer space, I'll have to freeze it in chunks. The plan is to thaw the meat sometime after Christmas and make it into summer sausage. The last 15-lb batch I made was from a kit modified with some of your tips. I froze most of it and kept what was being eaten in the fridge.

 

[FULLDRAWXX75]

freeze in larger chunks, grind later, make sausage and store in a cool/dry location.

FDXX75

 

[medic]

I grind everthing first then freeze. later I get out what I need to make summer sausage. I don't freeze the summersausage so no problems.